Originally posted by: ricarleite
Incorrect. Toriyama did intend to end Dragonball on the Freeza saga, but the publisher demanded for more. By the time the Freeza saga was aired on TV, the Androids/Cell saga was being published, so they knew what was ahead of them. The reason for draging the story for so long is the pace of the publication and the anime. You had 28 pages of manga and 90 minutes of anime in a month. You do the math. All anime adapted from a on-going manga suffers from this, because the producers try to keep up with the same pace as the manga - which is why I prefer anime created directly for the screen, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Haibane Renmei. (*sigh* yes there ARE manga for those anime, but it was created later - every manga adapted from an anime sucks)
Incorrect. Toriyama did intend to end Dragonball on the Freeza saga, but the publisher demanded for more. By the time the Freeza saga was aired on TV, the Androids/Cell saga was being published, so they knew what was ahead of them. The reason for draging the story for so long is the pace of the publication and the anime. You had 28 pages of manga and 90 minutes of anime in a month. You do the math. All anime adapted from a on-going manga suffers from this, because the producers try to keep up with the same pace as the manga - which is why I prefer anime created directly for the screen, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Haibane Renmei. (*sigh* yes there ARE manga for those anime, but it was created later - every manga adapted from an anime sucks)
Yeah, I knew it was something like that.
In reguards to some of the filler, some of the anime filler was quite good, like the Garlic Jr. Saga, but other filler just... wasn't. The Captain Ginyu stealing Bulma's body for one. How the heck does she build a translator that can change Namekian frog speech into the universal language everyone seems to speak?
And it also created some plot holes, like the one where the moon projected from Goku's old ship he came to Earth on made Gohan transform despite the fact it was only a Hologram and therefore incapable of emmiting Brute Rays.